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epicœle
epicœle
See also: epicoele
English
Noun
epicœle
- (zoology) A perivisceral cavity made by an invagination of an ectoderm.
- 1921, Thomas Jeffery Parker and William Aitcheson Haswell, A Text‐Book of Zoology, Macmillan and Co.; Volume II., page #97:
- In the cerebellum the thickening takes place to such an extent that the epicœle is usually obliterated altogether.
- 1921, Thomas Jeffery Parker and William Aitcheson Haswell, A Text‐Book of Zoology, Macmillan and Co.; Volume II., page #97:
- (anatomy) epicœlia
References
- epicœle in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911